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Roger Federer Is Getting Loose
Roger Federer is not going to leave a stack of soulless husks in his wake at Wimbledon the way Rafael Nadal did at the French Open. Nadal left Paris with a body count; Federer was sure to be a little different in London. He has always revealed more flashes of mushy mortality—netting backhands, doubl...
Guy Who Got Serious About Tennis After High School Reaches Wimbledon's Third Round
Twenty-one-year-old Austrian Sebastian Ofner—who reportedly only started playing tennis seriously after he graduated secondary school two years ago; who was ranked No. 217 in the world; who had never played above a Challenger-level tournament before Wimbledon; who has earned only $46,193 in his care...
Bernard Tomic Was Just A Little Too Honest<em></em>
Bernard Tomic is a talented 24-year-old Australian who turned pro almost a decade ago and, perhaps relatedly, has a notoriously bad attitude. He’s been accused of tanking, faking injuries, and occasionally being an unmotivated brat on the court. Earlier this week at Wimbledon, he lost the first set,...
Bethanie Mattek-Sands Suffers Brutal Leg Injury At Wimbledon
Bethanie Mattek-Sands suffered what appeared to be a serious right leg injury as she approached the net during today’s second-round Wimbledon match against Sorana Cirstea....
Runaway Umbrella Interrupts Tour De France
Stage six of the Tour de France is currently taking place, but there was nearly a mishap when a runaway umbrella—or a parasol, if you want to be technical about it since it was a sunny day—flew onto the course. It was blown right through the peloton. Several riders had to swerve to avoid it. Fortuna...
Plague Of Flying Ants Descends On Wimbledon
What’s worse than ants in the grass on your summer day outside? Ants that can freaking fly. Wednesday at Wimbledon, flying ants swarmed the grounds, bugging both spectators and players with their shameless, incessant behavior....
Dustin Brown Is The Wackiest Motherfucker In Tennis
The overhead is one of the most straightforward shots in tennis, so straightforward it follows a script. You are standing not too far from the net. A ball is falling down to the court from way up above. Your job is to meet it with your racket over your head, and hard. The only real choice left to yo...
Daniil Medvedev Melts Down At Wimbledon, Tosses Money At Umpire's Chair
Daniil Medvedev’s first-ever Wimbledon burned hot, brief, and stupid. The 21-year-old Russian upset No. 5 seed Stan Wawrinka in the first round, and today he exited in a remarkable meltdown. ...
Tennis Fans Tussle Over A Sweaty Towel
At Wimbledon, the most decorous of all the major tournaments, a squabble over a player’s sweaty towel, flung into the crowd at the end of a match, has the tennis world all worked up....
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Unseeded Daniil Medvedev Upsets Stan Wawrinka In First Career Wimbledon Match<em></em>
Stan Wawrinka, the No. 5 seed at Wimbledon, fell in four sets to unseeded 21-year-old Daniil Medvedev, who claimed both his first career victory over a top-five player and first victory at Wimbledon....
Venus Williams Breaks Down In Tears When Asked About Fatal Car Crash
In a post-match press conference following her first round victory over Elise Mertens at Wimbledon, Venus Williams was asked about the car crash she was involved in that resulted in the death of a passenger in the other vehicle. Williams attempted to answer the question, before being overcome by emo...
Nick Kyrgios Pulls Out Of Wimbledon After Re-Injuring Hip During First-Round Match<em></em>
Nick Kyrgios retired from his opening match at Wimbledon with a hip injury after falling down two sets to world No. 70 Pierre Hugues-Herbert....
Wolves Trade Ricky Rubio To Jazz And The Point Guard Shuffle Has Begun
Are you ready for the point guard shuffle? The first domino is a trade sending Ricky Rubio to Utah in exchange for a lottery-protected first-round pick....
Texas Commit's Jaded Brother Sells Him Out To NCAA
Ibrahim Johnson, brother of five-star Texas commit Mohamed Bamba, posted a 22-minute Facebook Live video on Monday in which he repeated the phrase “long story short” at least a dozen times and claimed Bamba received, amongst other things, shoes, vacations, dental work, a television, a $200-per-week ...
Jimmy Butler Gives The Masses His Number, Tells Them To Call<em></em>
Jimmy Butler held his introductory press conference up in Minnesota this morning, and when he was asked about rumors of his discontent in Chicago, he waved it off and encouraged anyone who wanted to to hit him up. “My phone’s in my back pocket,” he said, “773-899-6071.”...
Pigeon Causes Brief Ruckus At Wimbledon
A pigeon briefly disrupted a Wimbledon qualifying match Tuesday between Amandine Hesse and Miyu Kato. Hesse swatted at the invader with her racket and a ball boy chased after it, trying to scare it off the court. Unperturbed, the pigeon alighted briefly on the net, before heading to a tree next to t...
Lovable British Schlub Reaches Final Round Of Wimbledon Qualifying Again
Marcus Willis, the 26-year-old British tennis player who made a surprise run through last year’s Wimbledon qualifying but lost to Roger Federer in the tournament’s main draw—and is probably best known for drinking soda and noshing on a candy bar during a match—is one win away from making the main dr...
Malcolm Brogdon Beats Joel Embiid, Dario Saric For Rookie Of The Year
The Bucks’ Malcolm Brogdon is the 2017 NBA Rookie of the Year, defeating 76ers teammates Joel Embiid and Dario Saric for the award. ...